Star Wars: The Force Awakens Takes Largest Domestic Box Office Weekend of All Time
Perhaps unsurprisingly, when we consider that it had already set first-day pre-sale records, Star Wars: The Force Awakens has opened to the largest domestic weekend box office haul of all time. It has earned an estimated $238 million in its first three days in the US, and a phenomenal $517 million worldwide – the latter figure being just shy of the $524.9 record set by Jurassic World earlier this year, but that film also opened in China, whereas The Force won’t be awakening there until 9 January next year. When we consider that the budget for the movie stands at around a relatively measly $200 million, it means that the movie alone (regardless of any merchandising tie-ins, etc.) will have already nearly become profitable. It also goes a long way to justifying the $4.05 billion which Disney spent on buying Lucasfilm, the company behind Star Wars, from George Lucas in 2012.
All box office figures come from Box Office Mojo. You can discover the full list of records broken by Star Wars: The Force Awakens on its opening weekend here.
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